It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another days progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper. – John Updike
The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. – John Updike
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. Weve spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why arent they paying for it? They dont like Qaddafi, Qaddafis been a terrible thorn in their side. – Donald Trump